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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2015
Applicant:

Sandisk Technologies Llc, Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Allen Samuels, San Jose, CA (US);

Warren Fritz Kruger, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Linh Tien Truong, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Plano, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/08 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0629 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0634 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 11/5621 (2013.01); G11C 16/08 (2013.01); G11C 16/349 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7204 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01); G11C 2211/5641 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods and/or devices are used to enable notification of a trigger condition to reduce declared capacity of a storage device. In one aspect, the method includes, at a storage device of a storage system, the storage device including non-volatile memory: (1) detecting a trigger condition for reducing declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device, and (2) notifying a host to which the storage device is operatively coupled of the trigger condition for reducing declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device, the trigger condition for enabling performance of an amelioration process to reduce declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device includes one or more flash memory devices.


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